…For the third time in three years, Thomas-Rasset [took] a seat in a federal courtroom to hear the Recording Industry Association of America tell a jury that the Brainerd mother of four willfully committed copyright infringement by distributing 24 songs on the KaZaA peer-to-peer file sharing network.

This weekend Sandbox Theatre will open their latest collaborative production, unspeakable things: the Wandrei brothers project, about Donald and Howard Wandrei, two St. Paul brothers who wrote science fiction books together.

My apologies, everyone–I misled you just a titch. In last week’s Arts Orbit Radar, I wrote that the Minnesota Opera’s new production of Gioachino Rossini’s Cinderella “is bound to be pure luxury.” That’s not precisely true. “Pure luxury” would be like a cupcake from Cake Eater Bakery, piled high with sugary frosting. This Cinderella is more like a good cranberry muffin: filling and consistently tasty, with occasional bites of fruitiness dispersed evenly throughout.

When Kristin Makholm became executive director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art in June 2009, she was faced with a program that had no building, virtually no staff and little money. A year and a half later, after seeing success with different outreach programs and exhibitions, including “Museum Without Walls,” in which the museum partners with other local institutions to show its art collections, Makholm is looking at fall 2015 as the museum’s reopening date.

Throughout November, Gallery Two of the Walker Art Center is a second home to the New York-based choreographic team of Eiko & Koma. The artists, who are usually seen on stage, have transformed the museum space into a mysterious sanctuary they fully inhabit in a “living installation” called “Naked.”

This weekend, Aniccha Arts, a company that merges media and dance, presents a performance that takes on what the artists call “an ecology of fear” in our society. Predicated on the idea of crowd control and the politics of sound, Words to Dead Lips explores the dimensions of how a climate of fear can shape and form a crowd, and how individuals, or groups of individuals can fight against that force.